List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece

Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Hellenic Republic
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Matthew Lodge since August 2021
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Athens
Appointer	King Charles III
Inaugural holder	Edward Dawkins First Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation	1833 Minister Plenipotentiary 1862 Envoy Extraordinary 1943 Ambassador Extraordinary
Website	UK and Greece

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Greece is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Greece, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Greece. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic.

The modern Greek state (then the Kingdom of Greece) was established in 1832 at the London Conference of 1832 and internationally recognised in the same year by the Treaty of Constantinople, in which Greece secured full independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Besides the embassy in Athens, the UK government is represented by vice-consulates on the islands of Corfu, Crete and Rhodes, and by an honorary vice consulate on Zakynthos. ^[1]

Heads of Mission

Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece

• 1833–1835: Edward Dawkins ^{[2] [3]}
• 1835–1849: Sir Edmund Lyons, Bt ^[2]
• 1849–1862: Sir Thomas Wyse ^[2]

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece

• 1862–1864: Peter Scarlett ^[4]
• 1864–1872: Hon. Edward Erskine
• 1872–1877: Hon. William Stuart
• 1877–1881: Edwin Corbett
• 1881–1884: Clare Ford
• 1884–1888: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt ^[5]
• 1888–1892: Hon. Edmund Monson ^{[5] [6]}
• 1892–1903: Edwin Egerton ^[6]
• 1903–1917: Sir Francis Elliot
• 1917–1921: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
• 1921–1922: Francis Lindley ^[7]

Break in diplomatic relations – see 1922 in Greece

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hellenic Republic

• 1924–1926: Sir Milne Cheetham ^[8]
• 1926–1929: Sir Percy Loraine, Bt
• 1929–1933: Hon. Patrick Ramsay ^[9]
• 1933–1939: Sir Sydney Waterlow
• 1939–1943: Michael Palairet

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

• 1943–1946: Sir Reginald Leeper ^[10]
• 1946–1951: Sir Clifford Norton
• 1951–1957: Sir Charles Peake
• 1957–1961: Sir Roger Allen
• 1962–1967: Sir Ralph Murray
• 1967–1971: Sir Michael Stewart
• 1971–1974: Sir Robin Hooper
• 1974–1978: Sir Brooks Richards
• 1978–1982: Sir Iain Sutherland
• 1982–1985: Sir Peregrine Rhodes
• 1985–1989: Sir Jeremy Thomas
• 1989–1993: Sir David Miers
• 1993–1996: Oliver Miles
• 1996–1999: Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• 1999–2004: Sir David Madden
• 2004–2008: Sir Simon Gass ^[11]
• 2008–2013: David Landsman
• 2013–2016: John Kittmer ^[12]
• 2017–2021: Kate Smith ^{[13] [14]}
• 2021–present ^[update] : Matthew Lodge ^[15]

References

1. "UK and Greece". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
2. Haydn, Joseph, The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire (1851)
3. Jones, Raymond (1983) The British Diplomatic Service, 1815-1914, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p.198–199
4. "No. 22635". The London Gazette . 17 June 1862. p. 3097.
5. "No. 25785". The London Gazette . 10 February 1888. p. 17.
6. "No. 26258". The London Gazette . 16 February 1892. p. 846.
7. Stillwell, Stephen Joseph (2003). Anglo-Turkish Relations in the Interwar Era (snippet view). Volume 73 of Studies in British History. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. p. 182. ISBN   978-0-7734-6776-7. OCLC   51553133 . Retrieved 21 February 2010.
8. "No. 32914". The London Gazette . 29 February 1924. p. 1822.
9. "No. 33580". The London Gazette . 18 February 1930. p. 1046.
10. "No. 36407". The London Gazette . 3 March 1944. p. 1064.
11. "Our Ambassador". British Embassy Greece. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008.
12. "John Kittmer's Thirty Great Things About Greece". philhellenes.org. 22 December 2016. Archived from the original on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
13. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Greece". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 1 June 2016.
14. "Ms Kate Smith CMG, British Ambassador to Greece". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
15. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Greece". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 8 December 2020.

External links

• UK and Greece, gov.uk